Print – both the industry and its products – has undergone dramatic change in the course of the 20th and early 21st century. Technological innovation, the transformation of old and the introduction of new media overturned century-old patterns of information production and media consumption. This process was sparked and accompanied by but also boosted competition and conflict in various fields: the scramble for markets and industrial relations, freedom of the press and intellectual property rights, typographic standards and archiving techniques, to name but a few. Change, however, held very different connotations for different professions and protagonists. The conference will look at several of these broad processes, specifying their dynamics and their impact through case studies of typographic design and technology in an era of intense technological change; the varying use and concept of images as visual information; the changing tides of sales organisation in the media industry; the moving target of information storage against the backdrop of rapidly changing availability of storage formats; and the struggles both among and between different protagonists in print, the media industry’s standard-bearer for most of the period under investigation and possibly to this day.

Programm

Thursday, 12 April

17.00: Guided tour through the museum (Sandra Schürmann)18.00-19.00: Keynote: Monika Dommann (Zurich), Labour at the End of the Linotype

Friday, 13 April

9.00-9.15: Introduction (Karsten Uhl)

9.15-10.45: Typography (Chair: Kim C. Priemel)Vaibhav Singh (Reading): Means of Production: Typographic Design and Technological Enterprise in Early Twentieth-Century IndiaNikolaus Weichselbaumer (Mainz): Typesetting Technology as a Key Factor for the Development of Type Design and Typography in the Twentieth Century

16.30-18.00: Storage (Chair: Martina Heßler)Matts Lindström (Stockholm): Dreams of the Minuscule: The Imaginary of Microfilm and the Production of Scientific InformationAlexandros Panagopoulos (Athens): Invisible Labour During the Digitalization of the Newspaper Archive of the Greek Parliament Library, 2004-2010

Saturday, 14 April

9.00-10.30: Industrial relations 1 (Chair: Knud Andresen)Kim Christian Priemel (Oslo) Three Commissions and a Funeral. The British Newspaper Industry’s Economics and Politics, 1947-77Sonja Neumann (Munich) Showdown on the Newspaper Market – How Skeleton Editions reflect the Balance of Power between the Printing Business Players

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